TSheets announces integration with online invoicing firm

TSheets, a Meridian-based company that’s developed a powerful Web-based time and labor tracking system for handheld devices, announced Nov. 18 that it had joined forces with Canadian online invoicing firm FreshBooks.

The partnership will enable TSheets customers – who use the software to keep track of their own or their employees’ time remotely – to instantly create invoices for easy and accurate billing.

“It’s a very tight and deep integration,” said TSheets CEO Matt Rissell.

TSheets already offers the ability to clock in and out through voice and text over any computer or cell phone (including iPhone or Google’s Android), but adding invoicing provides another dimension.

“It’s like business productivity meets euphoria,” reads TSheets Web site. “Remember, TSheets allows you to track specific job codes, projects, and sub-projects with an actual time stamp and not just simply ‘hours worked’ or elapsed time like a stop watch. A seemingly simple act, but when you’re an employer, you need to know if the employee was at the job at 8:03 a.m. vs. just working for 6 hours on a particular day.”

Rissell added that the addition of invoicing to TSheets came as a result of customer demand and after about two months of work.

“Essentially we’ve had an ongoing request to provide invoicing to our customers,” Rissell said. “We sought out the single best online invoicing service in the world, and actually, FreshBooks approached us. It was a great fit.”

The partnership won’t change TSheets’ pricing or its essential services, Rissell said. Because FreshBooks is Web-based, the integration simply gives TSheets users the ability to access invoicing.

“The only change is we’ll add a bunch of customers,” he said.

TSheets has grown rapidly over the past year, integrating a voice-command feature called Jott in June, and in July unveiling an iPhone app that rocketed the company’s user base.

Featured on heavyweight tech blogs like TechCrunch and WorkFast.tv, TSheets has leveraged its increasingly high profile into an expanded staff and a move to Meridian’s new VengaWorks flexible-use office building.

“It’s just fun to be a national company that’s doing business on a national or international level out of Meridian,” Rissell said. “We look forward to participating in the success of the economy, and, specifically, the local technology industry.”